I recently found your channel after deciding to embark on a journey to learn Finnish. It looks like your channel has about eight or nine years of content, so plenty here to keep me busy for a long time! Thanks so much for all your hard work! You really do a great job explaining things, and you make it really clear to hear how words are supposed to be pronounced. This will be my sixth language (I've studied Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, and Russian). Hoping to add Finnish and Swedish next!
22:23 'Viesti on kirjoitettu talvella' - We cannot tell precisely, because lumimyrräkkä can happen both in spring and in autumn. And if people write in Finnish, it does not necessarily mean they are in Finland. Maybe they are on Länsimaa (Norja) or in mountains in South Chile. 🤷♂ There should also be a comma after 'Hei Ulla'.
@@KatChatsFinnish truth is more important to me than what the examiners want. ✌ I dislike that the test authors expect people to adapt and lie. The system must be fair and encourage honesty.
Kiitos tästä! Nice to see some more advanced Finnish on RU-vid! So much of what you find is geared to the beginner, understandably as that's where the most viewers are I guess. It's not the easiest to find things in Finnish when you're at the "I understand more than a child but not a fully functional" adult yet level.
In Russia and postSoviet countries (especially where people speak Russian) using just first names is a big NO if you talk to older colleagues or older people in general, and in most cases to your boss (but now, in modern companies, where your boss is more or less the same age as you, that's changing). You can use it while talking to colleagues of the same level and the same age. Last names aren't used, the common polite way is to use the name + the patronymic (the father's name), for example Ivan Ivanovich (Ivan, the Ivan's son). We have the patronymic in our documents (actually, they put my patronymic as a middle name in my passport, I am Evgeniy Viktorovich - my father's name was Victor) - almost all of us, people who have no father or people from some ethnic groups may not have it, but usually they put an arbitrary one (for example, I had a friend who is a single mother, her son doesn't have info about the father in his birth certificate -> she put a patronymic for him as she wanted when she got a birth certificate for him)
I don't understand much from the audio but the language still sounds beautiful to me. Maybe if i see it written down and take some time to analyze i could make more sense of it.
And thank you for the video, it's very interesting! I am at the beginner level, I couldn't understand the text - they speak too fast for my level! But I could catch some words, then it's just practice! I can try some basic level tasks.
Yeah it's actually quite hard because not only you have to listen and understand what they are saying but also remember the content so you can answer the questions xD
Opin Suomea yli 6 vuotta, asuin Kuopiossa ja kun kävin Turussa tai Tampereella en ymmärtän sitä koska heillä oli liikaa paikallisia murteita :) Suomen kieli on erittäin vaikea oppia
I'm curious about the beginner level test. Is it worth it? I don't live in Finland and don't plan to but am considering it as a way to direct my learning. I would incorporate it into my trip to Finland.
Hm I'm not sure I've heard of people taking it just for fun xD You can definitely use the resources for studying for the exam because I think that can be useful, but I'm not sure taking the test is worth the money/time in your case :)
'Sitä' is the partitive (mitä) form of 'se'. Example: Älä osta sitä. 'Siitä' is the elative (mistä) form of 'se'. Example: Ota siitä uusi lautanen. If it helps, think of 'sitä' as se-ta and 'siitä' as se-sta.
This is my one issue stopping me getting citizenship. I can manage in everyday life but letters and some more detailed things I struggle with. It wouldn’t even have been an issue but for the stupid Brexit that happened so now I’m just a third country national with no EU rights…….gutting 😕 The YKI test is beyond my level at the moment.
Yes Brexit.. 😩 At the moment it may be but I hope you continue to improve over time and one day you’ll be able to reach this level and be able to pass the test 🙌🏻
Assuming you're British (or does Brexit affect more countries when it comes to third nation status?), it might have been easier for you to learn Swedish instead. (If that counts for Finnish citizenship. I don't know if it does). Swedish and English are related languages. After you got Finnish citizenship you could then have dropped the Swedish and continued learning Finnish at your own pace. But now if you're half-way there with Finnish it might be easier to continue with Finnish.
I managed to answer some of these questions. Not great, but I am happy that I am understanding something. Thank you a lot for the help🥰 I can't say that I have reached a level of understanding without your aid
Thank you so much for your effort of teaching us Finnish language i'm from Philippines and working here in saudi Arabia and hopefully soon 2024 i can go to finland as i finish my Finnish language training... God bless Kittos paljon 🙏❤️
Hola!!! agradezco mucho este video. Ignoraba completamente que existía un test para certificar el idioma, esta nueva información es importante y vital para los que deseamos ir a vivir a tú país 😅... pregunta. ¿cuánto tiempo recomiendas estudiar para adaptar el idioma? yo todos los días veo tus videos por una hora, pero siento que es poco😢. saludos desde 🇨🇱 y muy contenta por el contenido que compartes. lo otro, ¿puedo seguir tú Instagram?
Lo mejor es estudiar de un libro de texto con un profesor y sumergirse por completo en el entorno del idioma, aplicando los conocimientos en la práctica. Puedes comunicarte de alguna manera en solo un mes, pero para aprender y hablar con fluidez, incluso diez años pueden no ser suficientes. Aquí no hay un límite de tiempo específico. Ver un vídeo no es suficiente. ¡Por supuesto que puedes seguir katchatss! ☺
